We’ve talked about the best Christmas music before and we’ve talked about the worst. But what about the most popular?

via xkcd.com

Any surprises? Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ doesn’t make the Top 20 list — a shocker for any Washingtonians who rely on WASH-FM for their Christmas radio or my fellow Love Actually devotees.

Of course, this is the American list. How does the British Christmas hits list compare?

via blog.osirra.com

‘Driving Home for Christmas’? ‘Fairytale of New York’? ‘Stay Another Day’? Are they celebrating the same holiday on that side of the Atlantic?!

I think xkcd sums it up best: our Christmas music is the music of our parents’ childhoods. From there, it just becomes a cycle. We grow up listening to ‘White Christmas’ and ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas,’ which become nostalgic for us, so we end up playing the same music for our kids. And so the circle continues.

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